The removal of the wall covering in the Yellow Bedchamber reveals the 'ghosts' of the pinnacles seen in eighteenth-century engravings.

In referring to the Great Tower, many of you will think of the Round Tower, which is the principal form of the villa's western elevation, but this only came into being from 1759 onwards. The place of which Walpole writes, which was so important to the early villa as a castle-like house, are the series of rooms placed in the south east corner of the house - from bottom to top: the China Room, Green Closet and Plaid Bedchamber.

During the twentieth century, these rooms had largely disappeared, certainly from the public tour route, as the spaces had been swallowed-up to form a series of bathrooms all to make the house convenient for the modern-living Lord Michelham and the comfort of the Vincentian Fathers.

The rooms are relatively modest, but their castle-like quality lies in their being concealed spaces; they are rooms within rooms as they do not relate to the main stairs. The sense of being in an exotic interior is created by the shaped, dual aspect windows.